shriveled

Speech parts

1. shriveled - Adjective

2. shriveled - Verb

4. shriveled - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Shrivel

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Examples

For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves. Carlos Castaneda

There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions, bearing no fruit, and maintaining only the semblance of existence; such a church cannot long survive. George C. Lorimer

I looked down at her shriveled corpse. It lay across that of her brother. One had represented the evil of the world, the other the good. Yet both had been defeated by pride, by ambition, by a promise of immortality. Michael Moorcock

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. Virginia Woolf

Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absolutely betray me. P. C. Cast

The earth cracks and is shriveled up; the wind moans piteously; the sky goes out if you should fail. William Carlos Williams

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